ABSTRACT The Black Sea area is a very dynamic environment, where all the offshore activities are under the influence of various environmental parameters. As a first step of the present work, the remotely sensed data provided by AVISO (Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic Data) were taken into account in order to evaluate the spatial distribution of the wind and wave conditions for the 6-year interval 2010-2015. A more complete picture is provided by assessing the same parameters throughout a reanalysis dataset coming from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts corresponding to the 10-year interval 2005-2014. The results are reported for the offshore points located on the routes A, B and C which will be used to identify the extreme conditions encountered by the ships navigating between Rostov, Azov Sea, the Kerch Strait or from the Novorossiysk region to the Bosphorus strait, respectively. Since the Black Sea is an enclosed basin, the significance of the marine energy resources is lower than in the case of the open ocean. Nevertheless, this geographical region presents some hot spots in terms of wave and wind energy, where the local resources are naturally concentrated leading also sometimes to hazardous situations. Finally, the results provided in this work could be considered usefull for a wide range of marine customers, especially for those involved in the safety of the maritime transportation.